Reuters: Move over Trump: China's tweeting diplomats open fresh front in propaganda fight
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tweets from Chinese diplomats abroad, including seasoned ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai, have opened a fresh front in Beijing’s increasingly assertive approach to diplomacy and propaganda and may be a sign of things to come.
Cui sent his first tweets just last week from his newly opened Twitter account, including one about Taiwan, the self-ruled and democratic island China claims as its own, garnering thousands of comments.
“#Taiwan is part of #China. No attempts to split China will ever succeed. Those who play with fire will only get themselves burned. Period,” Cui tweeted, after China threatened sanctions on U.S. firms selling weapons to Taiwan.
And over the weekend, a series of tweets defending China’s policies in the far western region of Xinjiang by diplomat Zhao Lijian, the no.2 at the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, lambasted the United States for its own human rights problems and what he described as hypocrisy.
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A wise person just doesn't go into a black part of town.
I remember a Indian classmate and lab partner, who was so dark, he was just a shade or two short of pitch black. He lived a few blocks from campus and just a few block from Martin Luther King Boulevard.
And you guessed it, they hassled him, because he was not black.
This is not about race but a culture created, abetted, and encouraged by the Democrat Party.
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